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<span class=large>ZEPHANIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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Seek righteousness; seek meekness—Judgment shall come upon the Philistines, Moab, the children of Ammon, the Ethiopians, and the Assyrians.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;1 <span class='smallcaps'>
Gather</span> yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
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Before the decree bring forth, <i>before</i> the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> come upon you, before the day of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s anger come upon you.
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Seek ye the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, all ye <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 76: 9; 3 Ne. 12: 5; D&C 88: 17 (15-17).">meek</a> of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/2/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the <sup>c</sup><a href="zeph/2/3c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG World, End of.">day</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s anger.
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&#182; For Gaza shall be forsaken, and <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 9: 5.">Ashkelon</a> a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
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Woe unto the inhabitants of the <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 25: 16.">sea</a> coast, the nation of the Cherethites!  the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> against you; O Canaan, the land of the <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/2/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Obad. 1: 19.">Philistines</a>, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
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And the sea coast shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR pastures and meadows.">dwellings</a> <i>and</i> cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
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And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God shall visit them, and turn away their <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 30: 3 (1-5); Ps. 14: 7; Amos 9: 14 (14-15); Zeph. 3: 20.">captivity</a>.
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&#182; I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reviling.">revilings</a> of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/2/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 48: 42 (29, 42).">magnified</a> <i>themselves</i> against their border.
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Therefore <i>as</i> I live, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 24.">Sodom</a>, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, <i>even</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/2/9b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE occupied by weeds and saltpits.">the</a> breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
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This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified <i>themselves</i> against the people of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>will be</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 45: 74.">terrible</a> unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and <i>men</i> shall <sup>b</sup><a href="zeph/2/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mal. 1: 11.">worship</a> him, every one from his place, <i>even</i> all the isles of the <sup>c</sup><a href="zeph/2/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Heathen.">heathen</a>.
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&#182; Ye <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 30: 5 (4-5).">Ethiopians</a> also, ye <i>shall be</i> slain by my sword.
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And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 20: 12 (12, 24-25).">Assyria</a>; and will make Nineveh a desolation, <i>and</i> dry like a wilderness.
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And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 34: 11 (10-11).">cormorant</a> and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; <i>their</i> voice shall sing in the windows; desolation <i>shall be</i> in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
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This <i>is</i> the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I <i>am,</i> and <i>there is</i> none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!  every one that passeth by her shall hiss, <i>and</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="zeph/2/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 18: 16.">wag</a> his hand.
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